Gotta Love Competition!

by Don Boudreaux on October 16, 2009

in Books, Competition, Complexity and Emergence

Competition is marvelous!

Comments

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Anonymous October 16, 2009 at 5:09 pm

Brilliant!

Simon Lvov October 16, 2009 at 5:15 pm

It can’t be that simple! I’m sure behind the scenes our wise and omnipotent leaders set up an “exchange” and offered a “public option” to force a competition on profit-seeking, workers-exploiting, greedy, inefficient, evil commercial enterprises! (pfffff…. I can take a breath now)

Anonymous October 16, 2009 at 6:21 pm

Speaking of competition, Russ has some in the libertarian rap arena: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNeemaV

iamse7en October 16, 2009 at 9:46 pm

Note to all:

If you search for the headline in Google News, and click the link FROM THERE, you’ll be able to read the article in its entirety. I’m not sure why this is, but it’s quite handy to know.

Anonymous October 16, 2009 at 11:00 pm: WSJ wants folks to find their news stories and come to their site, those that otherwise wouldn’t be on WSJ.com. It almost never fails, so I wonder how their online operation makes money when ignorance usually peters out quickly on the web.

Anonymous October 17, 2009 at 3:02 am

Books becoming more affordable? Horrors! We must stop this madness!

lol @ economic ignorance.

JCatalan October 17, 2009 at 4:50 am

I’ve been taking advantage of it! I bought a hardcover version of the Wealth of Nations, and I finally found Keynes’ General Theory cheap enough to actually buy and read, and I bought a copy of Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom. I’ve been surprised, actually. Borders gave me 40% off of Friedman’s A Monetary History of the United States and 30% off of Powell’s Making Poor Nations Rich.

I am running out of shelf space! They need to make bookshelves cheaper too, now!

Guest October 17, 2009 at 6:08 pm